What is it about?
Maxillary sinus augmentation is a surgical procedure that allows placing implants when the bone height is not enough to supprot a prosthesis. Despite being a safe procedure, sinus conditions such as sinusitis or impaired ventilation might represent a contraindication whose treatment requires times and delays the prosthetic rehabilitation. Our combined approach allows to perform the augmentation and to correct the contraindication in a single surgical session and spares a double surgical procedure to the patient while being perfectly safe nonetheless.
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Why is it important?
This combined technique has been already proposed by our group in the late '00, but this reviews, including also work from other international maxillofacial surgeons, gives a final answer on the value of the approach: treating the nasal contraindication to sinus augmentation and performing the augmentation itself in a single procedure is reliable, safe and reproducible.
Perspectives
The external validation of our technique is indeed even more satisfying than nwely proposing the technique itself and I'm glad to see our work finally acknowledged.
Dr alberto maria saibene
Universita degli Studi di Milano
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This page is a summary of: One-Step Maxillary Sinus Augmentation in Association With Endoscopic Sinus Surgery, Implant Dentistry, October 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health,
DOI: 10.1097/id.0000000000000477.
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